Canada Post provides a way to avoid having your naked pictures leak on Valentine’s Day

For two decades, Canada Post has offered to route mail each February through the post office in Saint-Valentin, Que., whose postmark could enhance an envelope delivered around Feb. 14 with a bit more romance.

The promotion expanded last year to Love, Sask. — a village with a population of about 100 — in a likely effort to rouse interest in continuing the tradition of sending cards through the mail.

The announcement from Canada Post nine days before Feb. 14 would suggest there’s still enough time to send one card to two different addresses across the country.

For national deliveries, four business days are considered the norm, although someone sending a love letter from B.C. is likely better off going for the Love, Sask. postmark than one of the two post offices on the east coast.

Canada Post has been a perennial fixture among the businesses and industries that attempt to take advantage in media interest surrounding Valentine’s Day.

The study has revealed that up to 97 per cent of Canadians “believe their data and revealing photos are safe in the hands of their partners.”

Yet one in 10 also reported that their personal content has been leaked to others without permission. Nonetheless, some 23 per cent won’t be able to resist “sexy or romantic photos to their partners via email, text and social media” for V-Day.

McAfee’s survey of 517 people also revealed that a slightly higher number of people follow their exes on Facebook and Twitter than pay attention to their current partners — who they can theoretically communicate with directly. But the data largely paints a grim scene of privacy violation geared to promoting the sales of privacy software.

Then again, these problems didn’t seem so rampant when people needed the post office to send evidence of their affection. Maybe two stamps is worth it in the end.